Yeah, genuinely not sure why they weren't streaming the game - Hughes games were steamed last year. Last week wasn't streamed because the press box isn't in place for the Bonney Field renovations, but this week, who knows.

Your team looked pretty good - they were actually well matched for most of the game. The difference maker seemed to be your forwards beating our defenders on the outside in the second half, and once they realized they could, doing so repeatedly. After the first goal it seemed like it got in some of our players' heads, which speaks to the relative age and lack of experience.

Few quibbles with reffing (one case in particular where a defender ran straight into one of our guys with the ball, from behind, bowling him over, in your box, no call), but it was a friendly so meh.

First half they looked pretty solid, and I'd say the better team. Second half they kept getting beat on the outside. Honestly, the one thing that has stood out to me so far in these friendlies is that it seems to get in their heads when they're behind, which is unfortunate.

The reffing also seemed pretty bad tonight.

Thankfully these are just friendlies, so hopefully they iron everything out.

Meh. Just wait til Monday. Official translation has been the best so far, and Fallen Angels have been doing it "right" in waiting for the official release before putting theirs out for non-Japan/US people.

Honestly, I think a lot of it is because it's still a small team and fanbase, and only the diehards (who, in general, are the most likely to be overly critical when seeking improvement) are the ones who show up and post.

With the amazing save you had this past weekend, how exactly is that something you can prepare for? Those sort of situations are hard to set up, with the chaos in front of the goal. Heck, is it even something you can prepare for?

Agreed. Given this isn't exactly a real "stadium" there's not really an "opposing section" - they were just two sections over and higher up from TBB - but the same rules should apply. I know that Atlas FC had a supporters group in their friendly last year without issue, so I'm rather disappointed with how this was handled.

Hopefully they'll treat this as a learning experience with a general "we need to have separate rules for organized chants in supporters groups" or something.

If you're interested in learning some about the background of how the manga/anime business works, I recommend checking out Bakuman. It's a manga about the process of making manga by the same duo who made Death Note. So it's obviously sensationalized, but it'll give you some idea of how things work.

That being said, the tl;dr of it is that it's too early for an anime to come out. One Piece was out for 2 years before its anime started airing. Naruto was 3 years. Bleach was also 3 years. Assassination Classroom was 2.5 years. Nisekoi was 2.5 years.

Dragonball and (weirdly enough) World Trigger were a bit of outliers at 1.5 years, but you get the general idea - we might get an announcement of an anime at around the 1 year mark, give or take, and it WILL get an anime....it's practically impossible it wouldn't with its level of support. But that stuff takes time.

Truthfully, at Hughes, it's very possible you'll end up with some poor seats - the inexpensive ones are all in the "bowl" of the stadium - the curve of the horseshoe which is away from the field. Every seat is a little removed because of the track around the field, but those ones are pretty far back. You should still get a good experience if the crowd is into it, and if you show up early I wouldn't be surprised if they do the whole "live band, beer garden" etc.

You'll find a lot of the folks who defend it are those who have gone back to re-read it (because say what you will about Malazan, it ends up there's a TON of telegraphing in that series, you just don't pick it up the first time through because there's so much going on), and I simply cannot describe how much better GotM reads when you've read the rest of the series (or hell, through Memories of Ice). By that point you've put together an idea of how the magic works, you've got a ballpark understanding of the geopolitical situation, you recognize some of the character names among the marines who all kinda blur together in the first book, and it just reads completely different. And people tend to remember this second read moreso than how they felt the first time through. I enjoyed the first time, but I didn't really get why I did until the second.

It's not "too deep" or anything like that - anyone who argues that is just being pretentious (although there are some allegorical things in the later novels which can make for some fun conversation), it's just written by a person who's lived and breathed games in that world for years and hadn't quite figured out how to invite the layman into that world, and it can simply be too much to bother with for a lot of folks, and fair enough. There's more than enough good books out there to weigh yourself down with something that doesn't interest you.

(The one thing that I will disagree with is the "Deus Ex Machina" comment - mostly because I felt the same way the first time through. It's just a rather poor method for introducing another mechanic of this universe to the reader, in such a way that it resolves the conflict, but it's not really the traditional sense of the term - there's a reason it happens. But once more, it's something that you figure out over the course of the first....eh....let's go with 7 books).

So I read the books and enjoyed them in high school, without really bothering to think too much about the meaning behind anything. FotF was the last one out at the time, and I didn't care enough to get any of the others, so I just left it at that.

Fast forward, I've matured a good deal, and was wasting some time looking at Legend of the Seeker on Netflix (which was campy and amusing for how bad it was) and decided to go back and reread the first novel to see how bad it actually was.

Richard is a sociopath. Like holy shit. The books are kinda amazing, reading them in retrospect of knowing just how crazy Goodkind is.

In a world where everyone is born with quirksmagic, a boy is born without the ability to use quirksmagic, but still wants to be king of the pirateswizards anyway. While saving his childhood rival, who is naturally talented, from an attack from a more powerful enemy, he gains the ability to use quirksmagic which is specially suited to the special training he's been doing. The two rivals both vow to become hokageKing of the PiratesWizards.

Honestly, with what we've seen of the world, it looks like it could be interesting, but it's super derivative right now, and will probably get lost in the masses because of that.

In a world where everyone is born with quirksmagic, a boy is born without the ability to use quirksmagic, but still wants to be king of the pirateswizards anyway. While saving his childhood rival, who is naturally talented, from an attack from a more powerful enemy, he gains the ability to use quirksmagic which is specially suited to the special training he's been doing. The two rivals both vow to become hokageKing of the PiratesWizards.

Honestly, with what we've seen of the world, it looks like it could be interesting, but it's super derivative right now, and will probably get lost in the masses because of that.